Tesla X2090 vs ATI Radeon HD 3570

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureTeraScale (2005−2013)Fermi 2.0 (2010−2014)
GPU code nameRV620GF110
Market segmentDesktopWorkstation
Release date5 July 2010 (14 years ago)25 July 2011 (13 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores40512
Core clock speed796 MHz651 MHz
Number of transistors181 million3,000 million
Manufacturing process technology55 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)30 Watt225 Watt
Texture fill rate3.18441.66
Floating-point processing power0.06368 TFLOPS1.332 TFLOPS
ROPs448
TMUs464

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 2.0 x16
Width1-slotMXM Module
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno data

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeDDR2GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount512 MB6 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit384 Bit
Memory clock speed495 MHz924 MHz
Memory bandwidth7.92 GB/s177.4 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors2x DisplayPortNo outputs

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX10.1 (10_1)12 (11_0)
Shader Model4.15.1
OpenGL3.34.6
OpenCLN/A1.1
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA-2.0

Pros & cons summary


Recency 5 July 2010 25 July 2011
Maximum RAM amount 512 MB 6 GB
Chip lithography 55 nm 40 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 30 Watt 225 Watt

ATI HD 3570 has 650% lower power consumption.

Tesla X2090, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 1 year, a 1100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 37.5% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 3570 and Tesla X2090. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 3570 is a desktop card while Tesla X2090 is a workstation one.


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